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【正文】 clothes she wants and to have opportunities to move in Chicago39。s identities. Carrie‘s transformation from the beginning of the novel to the end occurs as a result of her responses to her experiences. The Carrie who boards the train in Columbia City sits primly (拘謹(jǐn)?shù)?), trying to ignore the glances of the man seated near her. Having certain morals, Carrie hesitates to acknowledge Drouet39。s characters in Sister Carrie search for their own American Dreams — Carrie, a poor country girl, arrives in Chicago, filled with the expectations of acquiring the finer things in life. She imagines the elegant clothes she will wear, the exciting places to which she will go, and the fashionable people with whom she will associate, thinking that everyone who lives beyond the boundaries of her Midwestern state has achieved that higher status. — Drouet seeks his own version of the American Dream. He has achieved a certain station in life and wears the clothes to prove it. He frequents the important establishments in town and has befriended many of the established people. Yet, he pursues the other appointments that represent his dream, such as a beautiful woman to adorn his arm and his own home. — Hurstwood has the woman, the established home and family, and a good position. He, though, wants more. He seeks love, appreciation, and more prestige. Change and Transformation ? Carrie and Hurstwood undergo dramatic changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. — Carrie39。s theory of evolution. They believed that one‘ s heredity and social environment largely determine one’ s character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as they really are, naturalism also attempts to determine “ scientifically” the underlying forces (. the environment or heredity) influencing the actions of its subjects. Naturalistic works often include uncouth粗野的 or sordid骯臟的 subject matter Major features of Naturalism The core of naturalism is determinism（ 決定論 ） ? An individual’s course in life is wholly determined by some bination of animal instinct, heredity, and environment. ? Humans lack freedom of their own will. All of their actions are controlled, determined. The universe is cold, godless, indifferent and hostile to human desires. Life bees a struggle for survival. ? Two of the naturalist’s recurrent concerns are: social systems that destroy and dehumanize, and individual experience of loss and failure. Naturalism is a harsher and extreme form of realism. The naturalists have a major difference from the realists. They feel realists as far too “genteel”. ? Naturalists do not look at the average, but at the violent, sensational, sordid, unpleasant and ugly aspects of life. ? They would go to the slums and write about the life
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